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Pathetic argument. the doctor is a doctor, i ask him kindly to go to the refugee camps in the turkish border and the lebanese border and the jordanian border, he will listen to two million eyewitness. two million eyewitness who will tell him that crimes and the violation that the syrian regime committed against the syrian people. >> miss atassi, one of the problems that the opposition and people in support of a strike here are running into in the u.s. are videos like came out in the "new york times" yesterday of one of the rebel groups in 2012 executing people who appear to be members of the s...

Good? >> i don't think that a bombing necessarily accomplishes that. i think that perhaps a targeted strike on assad would. but -- >> take him out. >> yeah, taking him out. i think that would send a message. >> that makes you smile, colonel. >> well, i sort of agree. i think we missed our opportunity about 18 months ago. you know, we didn't start the civil war. the civil war was a home-grown thing and we could have capitalized on it and then come to their assistance. that was the call for action. we need help, help us, and we didn't help. so they turned to the islamists and now we're seeing th...

Along. they want to do something very precise, sophisticated and signal but they want to paint it in these dramatic terms. >> let's take on history for a second here, doug, because the president also brought up rwanda today, saying that essentially if we saw the genocide in rwanda today and did nothing, we would regret it. is rwanda a better historical comparison? >> i agree with fareed, with every word he just said, completely. i don't think even rwanda is an analogy of what's going on right now. i know kosovo has been mentioned, too. it's a little better than world war ii. the whole world wa...

It's a little better than world war ii. the whole world war ii/hitler thing is very overwrought. i think the idea that chemical weapons are being used in syria, i mean, this is not a libya strike, you know, going after africa. this is in the heart of the middle east, where american interests are right by our border with turkey, our erstwhile nato ally, sharing a border with israel. it's a serious foreign policy crisis but the point fareed made is you don't want to oversell this as something larger than it is. i think that's where the administration has failed thus far. >> you brought up chemic...

This is world war ii, we should be mobilizing the whole army and sending it into syria. you see what i mean? you're trying to wind people up for some monumental dramatic cause and then what you're proposing is a limited precise strike that's really designed to send a symbolic message. this has been the problem with the administration's policy all along. they want to do something very precise, sophisticated and signal but they want to paint it in these dramatic terms. >> let's take on history for a second here, doug, because the president also brought up rwanda today, saying that essentially if...